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Chrome extension

Keeps track of shows different accounts on same account [profiles]

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Build a chrome extension that asses portfolio characteristics (correlation, risk-reward, etc.) on top of personal capital

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AR tech on top of ruins

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/kx4i1z/what_a_great_idea/

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Nested stability <> coalition-proofness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition-proof_Nash_equilibrium

Think: Each lower level must be MORE stable than its own aggregation at each proceedingly higher level --> prevents unraveling [think cellular forces as more stable than psychological forces at the human level]

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Survivor (TV) <> coalitional game theory

Strategic play, reformation of coalitions [constant tradeoff of helping your coalition against other coalitions vs. prioritizing yourself within the coalition]

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Mind palace and narrative

Better the narrative, the smaller the amount of space required to store info --> more info can be stored?

[thinking of image (staircase) made for Research Methods on Kuhn’s structure of scientific revolutions]

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Reinforcement learning <> Organizations

Variance analysis within FPA - i.e., difference between expected budget and actual --> convergence over time

Bayesian learning

How do the levels work together to achieve this goal?

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Understanding elements at the highest (most abstract) level that still communicates the message [entropy reduction] (objective dependent)

Cells and signal transmitters vs. ion channels

Humans as intra processes vs. signals to one another - e.g., studying human communication as the audio signals that correspond to x vs. the effect

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Reinforcement learning and (mean, variance) bayesian updating

Bayesian updating --> narrowing variance (mean changing and narrowing variance) - +/- error rate.

When we experience pain (negative signals given our bayesian estimate [mean,variance], we increase our variance [widen our range])

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People do not appear to be trying to maximize their value, but rather searching for stability

[but the average population belief that their true value exceeds that of their current societal value leads society to progress --> change] (given desire to “prove” true value)

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Emotions as a solution to strategy-proofness

I.e., the more difficult it is to mis-represent your true preferences, the easier coordination (and thus societal welfare maximization) is

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Instability forces exploitation, stability allows for exploration (some of which finds new stable paths, which may lead to superior / global maximums)

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Evolutionary signaling (each member of a coordinated group decides how to best approach exploration/exploitation in a non-completely random way - i.e., bounded randomness, but HOW [exploration-exploitation]

Comparative advantage + self-fulfilling prophecy

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Denial/inability to accept a differing view as "going backwards" (local max --> downward before global max)

People don't accept reality ("in denial") when it feels hopeless (task seems insurmountable - e.g., can't also do marketing)

--> think yerkes-dodson curve (anxiety too much --> poor results) [anxiety also re-running] (no recombination appears to make progress towards objective --> everywhere is down first)

Think hierarchical (neural) network and idea creation --> 

LOCAL MAX --> EVERYWHERE SURROUNDING IS NEGATIVE

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Coordination allows diversity which allows randomness (because locally suboptimal things survive) which allows super-locally bounded randomness, and then this cycle nests and repeats

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Yerkes-Dodson’s “productive anxiety” an individual analog to optimal randomness

Too much and we struggle to operate (think hyper focused on task, no noise/randomness)

Too little and we ... (think completely unfocused - takes very long to coalesce - which in a competitive environment leads to negative outcomes? - why is this suboptimal?)

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Selective attention <> Ego depletion

Selective attention feels like a method to prioritize (focus) the long term over the short term

Ego depletion feels like the psychological analog to this (ability to logically overcome base instincts)